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Friday, February 14, 2014

New Multicultural Identities in Europe

New
Multicultural Identities in Europe

Religion
and Ethnicity in Secular Societies

Multiculturalism in present-day Europe

How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the
one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will
religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social
and economic transitions on a transnational scale challenge ethnic and
religious identifications?

These questions are at the very heart of the debate on
multiculturalism in present-day Europe and are addressed by the authors in this
book. Through the lens of post-migrant societies, manifestations of identity
appear in pluralized, fragmented, and deterritorialized forms. This new
European multiculturalism calls into question the nature of boundaries between
various ethnic-religious groups, as well as the demarcation lines within
ethnic-religious communities. Although the contributions in this volume focus
on Islam, ample attention is also paid to Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism.

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Ismail Mesut Sezgin is currently a PhD researcher at the Institute for Spirituality, Religion and Public Life in Leeds Beckett University. Having completed his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at Marmara University in Istanbul, Sezgin is now carrying out research on religion and society relations. His PhD thesis is titled "Theory of Moral Responsibility in the Writings of Fethullah Gülen". His research interests include Ethics, Islam, Sufism, Political Islam and Turkish Politics. He has delivered seminars and reflections on these issues at an international level.